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The Case for Waiting to Use Maximal Effort Overload and Underload Throwing
You’re training a 15-year-old pitcher and you’ve been using a high intensity throwing program with overload and underload balls and he’s gained 5 mph in just a few months. Great, right? But, was that necessary and where are you going from here? At this point, it’s...
What Is Reactive Strength and How Does It Affect Throwing Velocity?
Physical capacity and mechanical efficiency are both critical in producing the highest possible velocity for an individual pitcher. I’ve covered the importance of lead leg block previously so in this article I’m going to focus on a specific piece of physical capacity...
Relaxation, Tension, and High Velocity Throwing
I've talked a lot about how increasing muscle tension and rate of force development is critical for high velocity throwing, but how does relaxing a muscle impact performance? Coaches have long known the ability to rapidly relax a muscle before and after a muscle...
Chris Perry: From 86 mph to 93 mph
Chris reached out to us in the summer of 2019, topping at 86mph and looking to take his pitching performance to the next level heading into his senior year of high school. Chris and his dad made the trek from Illinois to Baltimore to get an in-person assessment and...
Horizontal Abduction-Is More Always Better?
All pitchers have heard certain mechanical cues and common phrases used by teammates and coaches everywhere. Along with hip/shoulder separation, “scap loading” is one of those phrases. Scap loading is a phrase originally coined by Paul Nyman and refers to the...
Eccentric Training: Specific Methods Determine Adaptations, Part 1
Every sport relies on the ability to abruptly decelerate. The specific context of that deceleration may differ a bit, but it is present in every sport. If you want to throw gas, jump high, or juke someone out of their shoes, you have to be able to stop suddenly. This...
Upper Body Plyometrics for Throwing Velocity
Strength is an extremely important general quality for athletes of all levels to develop and maintain. Strength raises the athlete’s maximal force producing capabilities which underly everything the athlete does in sport. However, at a certain point, strength training...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 3
Thanks for following along for this three-part series. Rather than cramming all of this information into one 5000-word article I figured it was better to split it up into manageable chunks. This is the last piece of this series and will cover how programming from...
Velo Horseshoes: A Submaximal Method to Improve Throwing Velocity
Athletes who want to be the best often put a ton of pressure on themselves, are extremely invested in their training, know their PRs, especially on relevant KPIs, and this can get in the way of “free and easy” performances where the athletes enter flow state and...
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The Case for Waiting to Use Maximal Effort Overload and Underload Throwing
You’re training a 15-year-old pitcher and you’ve been using a high intensity throwing program with overload and underload balls and he’s gained 5 mph in just a few months. Great, right? But, was that necessary and where are you going from here? At this point, it’s...